The 'Livestock genomics' course ran in March 2024. Here, we have made the course materials available for you to access any time.

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Using these materials

These course materials provide a mixture of pre-recorded lectures, presentations and practicals to help advance your knowledge and skills in the analysis of biological data. You may select your topic of interest from the Course content page to view the relevant materials or work your way through all the course materials. 

To find out more about the trainers who created these materials, follow the links from the Course content page or go directly to the Trainer biographies page. You can also find the software requirements for the practicals in the Technical help sheet.

In the Further learning section you may explore the details about the EMBL-EBI’s free access online tutorials and webinars on a variety of life sciences topics.

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Learning outcomes

After the course you should be able to: 

• Describe sequencing technologies applicable to livestock genomics
• Carry out mapping, variant calling, and GWAS with genomes of common farmed animals
• Use Ensembl methods and data resources for for studying the impact of genetic variants, genetic diversity, and genomics for precision breeding
• Describe relevant initiatives in the field of livestock genomics

Material collection editors

• Peter Harrison, EMBL-EBI
• Daniel Thomas Lopez, EMBL-EBI

DOI: 10.6019/TOL.LivestockGenomics-t.2024.00001.1